Come along and hear Julie McMahon (HOD Technology, St Hilda's College) and John Creighton (HOF Technology, Burnside High School) discuss these revised assessment tools and how they can be utilised in programmes of learning. At the webinar, there will also be time for you to ask Julie and John your questions. Register here.

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Learning and Teaching

The Ministry of Education has released three guides to help schools design their curriculum and assessment review processes to strengthen a localised curriculum. The tools will help decision makers to assess progress that is informative, and strengthen the partnerships you have with parents and whānau. More on this to come. In the meantime, we ask, how do you design rich tasks with and for your learners? We'd love to hear more.

If you enjoyed our interview with Sujata Rajagopal last year, you'll really like this Enabling e-Learning snapshot highlighting how, at Taita College (Lower Hutt), learning is authentic, future-focused, multidisciplinary, and culturally responsive and students are gaining multiple NCEA credits this way.

Safer Internet Day NZ 2019! Safer Internet Day NZ 2019 has been and gone, but the theme, Together for a Better Internetas well as the resources and three top tips shared, are still relevant and worth acting on.

FREE Te Tiriti o Waitangi event and resources: Waitangi Day has also been and gone, but bookmark this page and check out the resources from Te Papa and NZC Online. Also feel free to add your own resources to keep this rich kete alive.

Whakawhanaungatanga - Getting to know our learners It’s the start of the year, and we've shared a pepeha template that helps to get to know your students a little deeper as well a template that invites parents and whānau to share their views on their child's strengths and needs.

We take a closer look at authentic learning at Te Kura o Matapihi where tamariki are taking ownership of their thinking while creating in new ways using Digital Technologies to support learning, collaboration, and connecting with the wider world. Join us when this discussion goes live in theTeaching group.

Professional Learning

We've all heard of professional inquiry and are no doubt engaging in evidence-based teacher inquiry practices in our schools, but what is collaborative inquiry and how can examining and reflecting on our practice together make a difference to our learners? Join us in this discussion thread to share our practice and find out more. This discussion will be hosted in the Professional learning group.

Technologies are a major influencer in our education, so there's always been a need to lead change with an e-learning lens. Now with the expectation to be ready to implement Digital Technologies (revised Technology Learning area) in 2020, we ask, what's needed for leadership and support in this area? Join us in this thread as we discuss implications for teacher and leadership capability to lead this change. This discussion will be hosted in the Leadership group.

Check out this previous hands-on webinar on how to use Scratch (plugged and unplugged in Scratch). We'll be doing a series of hands-on workshops to teach block coding and the language of coding to support teachers implementing Computational Thinking and Designing and Developing Digital Outcomes. Part of this thread: Scratching our heads for ideas with Scratch

Come along and hear Deidre Senior (Principal, Waitaki Valley Primary School) and Cheryl Pym (Accredited Professional Learning and Development Facilitator, Otago University) talk about the work they have been doing together with classroom teachers developing integrated programmes of learning using local curriculum that aligns with the technology learning area.